A company which authenticates signatures has refused to verify the authenticity of the signatures.

“They had a very machine like feel. You could see the starts and stops,” said Steve Grad, principal authenticator of Beckett Grading Services. “I immediately knew they were autopen. . . . I’ve never heard of a modern athlete doing this.”

There’s been no comment so far from Prescott or his agents, but it makes him the second NFC East quarterback in the midst of a memorabilia scandal, along with Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who is accused of passing off gear as game-worn when it may not have been.

I thought most athletes used auto pen? I have a certified Elway autograph on a helmet and it is certainly not hand wrtten. I think “certified” means that it is a true copy of the original, which is a little bit shady.

Well this should at least shut up the Dallas portion of NFC East fans that have been all over Eli Manning for the helmets.

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nice try. but your guy is accused of having already sold “not” game worn memorabilia, whereas, this card company was already accused after the draft by having distributed cards with auto signatures. could be a simple example of a company trying to max their profits by pushing some fake autos through.

Oh boo hoo, say it ain’t so joe. Any idiot knows when you get an autograph you WATCH THE GUY SIGN IT. Well, except for redskins, giants and eagles fans, they probably don’t have sense enough to know that. Get em Dak, lol. It’s gonna be a Cowboys kind of year.

Off with his head! Or hand! Whatever. Does anyone care if a machine was used??? Public officials have been doing it for years? What, you thought the president signed 8m Christmas cards every year by himself? Non-story. Hardly a scandal.

I’m no Cowboy fan, but there is a long way to go to suggest Prescott was in on this scheme. He might not have had any idea it was going on.

Either way, what is the point of an autograph if you weren’t there to get it yourself? To show people you are willing to pay ten times the worth of something just because someone famous wrote on it? It’s idiotic.

I understand it if you want to commemorate a meeting with the athlete himself. But what do I care if I’m holding the same trading card Dak Prescott or even Peyton Manning once held? So what?

actually this is more common than you think. For collectors you have to check to see if it was an autopen or not. Most will list it that way if it was. It sounds like the machine was malfunctioning because from what I understand, you can not tell the difference